To be a Flower, 2026

There is a line that has followed me for years, that grief is just love with no place to go. I don’t feel this is true for me, as most of my grief goes into my art. Art is where I let the layers live: the complexities, the unresolved feelings, the unanswered questions, the stories held. 

The first seeds of this body of work started as a dream revisiting a past self, a past dream that never walked into this world. As time ticked on, the seed crawled deeper, and a line from Emily Dickinson is where it started to grow: 

"To be a Flower, is profound

Responsibility—"

To Love, is profound responsibility.

I have been curious about cyanotype blues for some time now and felt no better time to experiment with this medium than for the Initiative Program at Kate Thomas Studio— to encapsulate love and grief, and all the starstuff in-between.